Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm …

Oscar Wilde
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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2000). The Plays of Oscar Wilde, p.168, Wordsworth Editions
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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2000). The Plays of Oscar Wilde, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

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